it’s hard to distinguish precisely what they mean when people use it.

It means that the person is struggling to articulate to you how they are really feeling because their vocabulary is too thin to enable them to describe their perspective. Ask them to try and explain it* to you with other words, try giving them alternate phrases and terms to help like affection, affinity, like-mindedness, shared values, sexual attraction, chemistry for example.
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